| Autore |
Claassen Jo-Marie
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
London, : Bloomsbury, 2008
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (305 p.)
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| Disciplina |
871.01
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| Soggetto topico |
Elegiac poetry, Latin
Epistolary poetry, Latin
Exile (Punishment)
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| ISBN |
1-4725-5670-4
1-4725-2143-9
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Sources -- Introduction -- 1. Setting the scene: why Ovid remains so popular and what this book is about -- 2. Brief overview of the facts of Ovid's exile -- 3. Problems of approach -- 4. Ovidian personae and the myth of exile -- 5. Poetic ordering: the importance of variatio and chronology in studying the exilic poems, with brief overview of contents -- 6. A story with a beginning, a middle and an end -- 1. Persons and personalities -- 1.1. Error and the imperial household: an angry god and the exiled Ovid's fate -- 1.2. Ovid's wavering identity: personification and depersonalisation -- 2. Poetic nequitia: the constant factor -- 2.1. Structure, chronology, tone and undertone: an examination of tonal variation -- 2.2. A stylistic and literary analysis of Ex Ponto 3.3: Praeceptor amoris or praeceptor Amoris? -- 3. Ovidius poeta -- 3.1. Carmen and poetics: poetry as enemy and friend -- 3.2. Metre and emotion -- 3.3. Ovidian Lautmalerei -- 4. Ovidian logodaedaly -- 4.1. The vocabulary of exile -- 4.2. Exsul ludens: punning and word play -- 4.3. Word-order and placement as a key to meaning -- 5. Myth metamorphosed: Ovid's use and re-use of mythology -- 5.1. Ovid, myth and intertextual allusion -- 5.2. Scholars' time and poet's themes -- 5.3. Myths featured in Tristia only -- 5.4. Tristia 2 and the catalogue of myths -- 5.5. More frequent figures -- 5.6. A pattern emerges -- 5.7. A new system of ornament? -- 5.8. Dominant themes and mythical identifications -- 5.9. The great omission -- 5.10. The singular myth -- 5.11. Statistical play -- 6. Ad nostra tempora: Ovid today -- 6.1. Mutatis mutandis: the poetry and poetics of isolation in Ovid and Breytenbach -- 6.2. 'Living in a place called exile': the universals of the alienation caused by isolation -- Excursus: Ovidian studies today.
1. Historicist interest -- 2. Literary studies -- 3. Modern Ovidian fictions -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Vocabulary Table -- Myth Tables -- Index.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817090003321 |
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Ovid revisited : the poet in exile / Jo-Marie Claassen
